Did the MN "interview" with Sunak help you make up your mind?

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I'm genuinely interested to know if the Q&A with Rishi influenced how you will vote at all. If so, in which direction?

YABU - yes it clarified who to vote for and was really helpful
YANBU - no it didn't help at all

I know it's technically a TAAT and may not last long but I'm genuinely interested.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_live_events/5102074-mnhq-here-got-a-question-for-rishi-sunak

As expected utterly bland. Might as well have been written by AI. And repeated the well worn tax lie.

TBH , this kind of rehearsed answering to a script is one thing I find frustrating but a Q and A is unlikely to sway my vote much anyway. I think undecided voters won't find any revelations in there.

Only minor party leaders can afford to be more daring and forthright I suppose. It's what Corbyn never managed to learn. Or Thatcher for that matter.

It was a bit insulting tbh. Repeating the tax lie showed how contemptuous he (or the person who wrote the replies) is of the electorate.

It was a waste of everyone's time.

Yes. It was a terrible format because he (or whoever it was if not him) could just spout the usual lies with no challenge / fact check.

As far as I could tell the answers were from an AI chatbot asked to impersonate Rishi.

Actually made me ask more questions.

1 - did he answer or a SPad using the quoted party lines

2- why was he allowed to lie about he tax - again?

3 - how were the questions asked chosen as none about disability were presented?

4 - did MN really think this would help their target audience vote for Sunak and the Tory's? He's disproportionally affected their target audience and user base with his policies.

And yes it's made me even more certain who I'll vote for. Or rather who I won't 😂

Mind numbing bullshittery of the highest order.

May as well ask Keir on as well and let him repeat the same banal script as always..

"Will you increase tax Keir?"
"My dad was a tool maker.."

"What about single sex spaces?"
"When I ran the CPS..."

"Free childcare care for all?"
"My mum worked for the NHS..."

Repeat - repeat - repeat

what is the "tax lie " ?

I’ve never felt the urge to vote Conservative in a General Election and this effort from Sunak reinforced that.

But I cannot vote for Labour under Starmer either. He talks twaddle.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2024/06/its-official-rishi-sunak-2000-claim-is-lie

It did not change my mind, never was going to.

Rishi Sunak is a person I would be happy to have a conversation with about non-political things, such as cricket. A person whose policies I disagree with. Same applies to David Cameron or Theresa May, possibly to Liz Truss.

Different from Boris Johnson where the disagreements are about his personal misconduct as much if not more. Indeed the conversation would never take place as it would start with my reciting the police caution to have him arrested.